18-year-old killed in Kennett crash

KENNETT – An 18-year-old woman is dead and another teen is injured following a crash on Old Kennett Road east of Burnt Mill Road at about 6:15 a.m. Sunday morning.

According to state police, Kristen Felkowski, of Wilmington, Del. was pronounced dead at the scene after the 2005 BMW she was driving struck a tree.

Police said the vehicle was heading west in the westbound lane of travel on the road when the vehicle approached a left curve in the roadway. Felkowski failed to negotiate the curve, leaving the roadway where the vehicle struck a tree.

The passenger, which police identified as a 16-year-old from Scranton, was taken to A.I. DuPont Hospital in Delaware with non-life threatening injuries.